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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-07-08
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
FROM WASHINGToN.


HENRY LEE SNYDER, chief engineer and
superintendent of the State, War and
Navy Departments, died suddenly at Wash
ington on the Goth ult of hemorrhage Of
the lungs.
REDUCING -four to its equivalent in
wheat the United States exports for the
to about 154.O00O1O bushels.
For the first half of 1887 the failures in
the United States were 4,912, against >, 1876
for the same period of 1856, a decrease of
pa. The liabilities show a slight increase.
Canadian failures for first half OF the pres
ent year. 731; same period 1886, 500
DURING the last season the United States
Fish Commission distributed IS, 421, 900
shad.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND pardoned Thomas
Ballard, the notorious counterfeiter, serv-
ing thirty years sentence at Albany, NJ
Y, on the Both ult
THE public-debt statement for June is as
follows: Total debt Gncluding interesD
81, ZOO, III ,94S; less cash items available for
reduction Of debt, and reserve bills for re-
demption of I'm tied States notes $3.50, 4S9,
S42) 81, 320, 2S2, 106; cash in treasury, S40,-
1853, 369; debt less amount in treasury,
81, 49, 42S, 49, Decrease during June, $l6
S52,725
THERE were 8, 750miles of new main rail-
way track laid in the United States dur
ing the six months ended June -.
The Pension Office at Washington dur
ing che fiscal year ended June 30 issued
Ill, $40 pension certificates, of which num-
Der IS, 1874 were original cases, s, 455 Mexj-
can war claims, and the remainder mis-
cellaneous cases.
THE United States Treasury receipts
for June were SO go, 1856, and the total
receipts for the fiscal year were s371, $780, :
S94
DURING June the coinage of the minis
aggregated 81 1887, 502, Of. which $2,512 900
was in standard dollars.
THE United States business failures dur
ing the seven days ended on the 1st num-
bered 155, against III the previous seven
days.
BECAUSE of the failure of Congress TO
make provis on for the payment of their
salaries twenty treasury clerks were dis
missed on the LIST.
AT twenty-six leading clearin e houses
in the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the I'd aggregated $5l,
25l, 154, GA, against 1901, $50, 762 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the CORE
spending week of 1856, the increase
amounts to 23 per cent.
BENEDICT KREBs, crank who has been
threatening to kill the President was taken
into custody at Washington on the I'd,
pending an inquiry into his mental condi-
ton. EE
THE National anniversary was very gen.
orally celebrated throughout the country
DURING June tho circulation of money in
creased a. 664, $40, while the decrease in
cash was S. 157, $751; as reported by the
United States Treasurer
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-07-08
THE EAST.

ONE of the most distinct shocks of earth
quake ever experienced was felt at Con-
cord, N. H., on the Both ult. People left
their houses and Legislators fled from the
State-House in fear.
RoARK, the West Shore express robber,
received a sentence of twenty years in
Auburn prison at UTICA N. Y, on the 30th
ult.
AN agreement between the iron manu-
facturers and workmen was reached on
the Both ult at Pittsburgh and scale Of
wages cmbodying ten per cent. advance
was signed.
A THIRTY or sixty days. shut down of all
the glass factories in the country com.
menced on the 30th ult.
On the 30th ult Mr.. Moody's summer
school for college students at Mortified,
Mass, opened. AS a result of last years
summer schools two Thousand students
had offered to become foreign missions
ares.
A GAS explosion at Rutland, VT, on the
30th ult destroyed great deal of prop
erty and caused injury to several persons.
Mrs. HAMILTON FISH, wife of the ex-
Secretary of State, expired at New York
on the Both ult.
By the explosion of can of petroleum
on the 1st Jennie, Kate and Emily Belder,
of Mt Washington, Pa, were burned to
death.
JOHN WILSON, in a drunken frenzy at
Chatham, N. j., on the 1st murdered his
wife and then blew his own brains out.
Eight children were orphaned by the
tragedy
A New YORK CITY commercial firm in
their weekly trade review on the 1st re-
ports general business conditions satisfac-
tory. Trade was good for the season, COL
lections fair, and money in reasonable
supply at all interior points. The labor
situation was also improving.
AT Providence, r. l., statue to General
Burnside was unyailed on the 4th.
EASTERN cities experienced intensely
hot weather on the I'd. Ia New York
there were six fatal cases of sunstroke, two
at Newark, N j., three at Boston, Mass,
two at Troy, N. Y, and five at Pittsburgh,
Pa
THE toy, notions and fireworks estab-
lishment of P. j. Keary a. Brothers in
New York was burned on the 81, with the
loss of two lives, and several other per-
sons were reported dangerously injured.
The property loss was $4,000
HoS. LUKE P. POLAND, member of Con-
gress for six years and United States Sen
aCor IOr one Term, expired at MS nome In
Waterville, VT, on the 2d, of apoplexy,
aged seventy-two years.
The number of games won by the base
ball clubs in the National League up to the
week ended on the 2d was as follows:
Detroit IS; Boston, 80; New York, 80;
Chicago, %; Philadelphia, 30; Pittsburgh,
10; Washington, IL; Indianapolis, ID.
The survivors on the Federal and Con.
federate sides of the battle Of Gettysburg,
held q reunion on the battlefield on the
4th, which was largely attended, the exer-
cises being interesting and appropriate.
INDICTMENTS were found against the
county officials at Reading, Pa, on the I'd,
for swindling the county, and general off,
cial crookedness.
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FoREICN INTRII.IcENcE.

A VIOLENT earthquake, lasting over. two
minutes, shook Guayaquil, the capital of
Ecuador, on the goth ult., wrecking sever
al buildings. No loss of life was reported.
Or twenty-o one persons on trial at st.
Petersburg for being active members OF a
revolutionary society eighteen were con
victed on the 10Th ult and sentenced either
to exile in Siberia or to imprisonment at
at hard labor for life.
In the Battle river, Canada, gold was re-
ported to have been discovered on the Goth
ult. in paying quantities.
MANY outlying villages in the valley OF
Mexico were submerged on the 30th ult
by heavy rains.
TIE captain and three seamen of the
British bark Lady Douglas were, on the
30th ult. at London, convicted of the muir
der of Malay sailor at sea and condemned
to death.
OTTAWA and Toronto began two days.
celebration of the Queens jubilee on the
Both ult
Ten persons were asphyxiated by coal
gas In a laborer's cabin at Holquin, Cuba.
on the Both ult
A HOTEL, bank and twenty-five stores
were burned at Blenheim, New Zealand, on
the 30th ult., causing loss of $3.50, 900.
The Forthcoming marriage of the Empe-
ror of China, now twelve years of age,
was officially announced on the 1st by the
Chinese Government The festivities, it
was said, would cost $1,000 600. # Ni
The Marquis of Winchester, the Premier
MARQUIS Of England, died on the 4th. ri
DISPATCHES received on the 4th state
that the central portions of Spain had
been visited by so terrible plague of To-
Gusts that whole districts were ruined.
Within the space of few hours these
pests had destroyed every trace of vegeta-
ton, and over considerable tracts of coun-
try not vestige of green was to be seen.
AT Fenelon Falls, Can, three brothers
named Moffatt, aged thirteen, fifteen and
seventeen years, were drowned on the 4th.
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LATER.

THE little village of Clarendon, Pa, was
almost entirely destroyed by an incendiary
lire on the 9Th. Loss, $500, 900. Eleven
hundred persons were made homeless and
two were burned todeath. The incendiary,
a man named Mahoney, had been arrested.
AT Nashville, Mo-, on the 5th Mr.. and
Mrs. Munson and Mr.. and Mrs. Bath were
killed by stroke of lightning.
81 the explosion of dynamite cartridge
on the 9Th at Jasz- Bereny Hungary,
twenty-seven soldiers were killed and
forty eight wounded.
THIRTY houses at st. RENT, Can, were
destroyed by fire on the 9Th, causing a loss
of 100000
A FULL State ticket, with John Seity, Of
Iitfin, for Governor, was on the 9Th put in
the field by the Union Labor party OF
Ohio in the convention at Columbus. A
platform was adopted denouncing gam
bling in stocks and psoduce; demanding
that discrimination by employers against
labor associations shall be declared a felo-
ny, and demanding the rigid enforcement
of the laws to prevent force and intlmida-
ton in politics.
SEVEN persons were killed on the 5th by
an explosion of naptha in a drug store at
Antwerp, Holland.
THERE were PIP 655 immigrants landed
at Castle Garden, New York, during the
first half of 1887, against 14S, 7O7 in the
grSt half of 1886.
q PASSENGER trains in Texas are hereafter
to carry guard of eight armed men as
precaution against train robbers.
THE National Association of Music
Teachers opened their convention Tuesday
at Indianapolis.
NJ o. I 2
chants at New York, failed on the 5th for
800 900.
Six buildings at Alfred Center, N. Y,
incluiing hotel and the pos t-office, were
burned on the 5th.
RUDOLPH v. ORACLE, Christina Kreig
and Hermann Steinecke committed SUI
eide at New York on the 5th.
THREE of the largest hotels at Grafton.
! w. Va, and nearly forty business houses,
including the Office of the Standard En-
qaarsr, were destroyed by fire on the 5th.
THE issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints during the week ended on the
"a was 5)9, 020; same time last year 4S7, :
$685.
EDWARD LAMB, noted comedian who
had been on the stage thirty five years,
died in BROOKLYN, n. Y, on the 5th aged
fifty-eight years
TIE treasury disbursements at WASH
ington from the 1st to the 5th insts. on ac-
count of pensions amounted to nearly Sl2,-
100000
Ex-Governor ANsoN p MORRILL, who
was stricken with paralysis recently, died
at eleven a. N. on the 4th at his home ia
augusta, Me- He was the first Governor
who enforced the Prohibitory law, and
from that early day his name has been
linked with that of Neal Dow as one of the
strongest supporters of prohibition. In
1851 he was elected q member OF Congress-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-07-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

DIR H. I. Peck, Professor of Latin
and Greek in Columbia College, is
barely thirty years of age.
The late Paul Tulane. founder of
the Tulane University in New Orleans,
went to that city from Princeton. N.
j., in 1918, on horseback.
General Boulanger has received
from committee of Russian admirers
valuable sword inscribed: "Qui Vive
La France ct Boulanger."
The American Seaman's Friend
Society has agents at sixty-siX ports in
three continents, and has made 463, S52
volumes accessible to seamen in the
past year.
Henry Ward Beecher had no idea
of the value of money. He would buy
pictures and bric-a-brac without think
ing of the price, and give the articles
away to the first person who fancied
them.
1t is reported that the sales of the
FIVE leading American magazines that
are reissued in England are greater III
that country than the aggregate sales
of the twenty-five magazines published
in the United Kingdom.
Miss Alice Longfellowis one of the
officers of the Society for the Collegiate
Instruction of Women, and is often
seen at the Harvard Annex building.
where, they say, she is regarded by the
students with love amounting almost
to reverence.
-Senorita Ernestina Perez passed
her medical examination a short time
ago, and is now practicing in Valpar-
also with the title of "Medico-Ciru-
iano." She is the first CHILEAN woman
who has studied medicine successfully.
-De1nOreSt'S.
"A relic of Dick Wilmington is
now being cleared away through the
advance of alterations and improve
ments in London. 1t is shabby, rus
tic, red-tiled building, inscribed
''Gresham House, once the residence
of Richard Wilmington, Lord Mayor,
1914 Rebuilt 1906"
One of the most eccentric rich men
in New York City is the venerable Ben
jamin Richardson. He is said to be
worth So, 100000 or more, but lives ia
tumble down house in Harlem He
holds mortgage for 100000 against
one of the most prominent insurance
companies in the city. Mr.. Richard
son owns the historic Washington
coach, which he lets out whenever
there is demand for the revolutionary
relic.
Sir William Dawson has been en-
gagged for some time past on a revision
of well-known work, 'The Story of
the Earth and Man." Sir William is q
hard-worked college chief, but he de-
votes several months of each year to
his geological pursuits. 1t may be
added that the contributions of his son,
Samuel Dawson, F. r. S. c., to geolog-
ical literature have already attracted
attention among the leading scientific
circles of Europe. The Epoch.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-07-08
THE POSTAL SERVICE.

Its Efficiency Further Improved by the
Making of Number of Towns in Illi-
nois Michigan, Wisconsin,, Iowa and In
diana Money Order Offices.
WASHINGTON, July 6.-The following adj
ditional money-order offices in Illinois
were established yesterday by Postmaster
General Villas: Alto Pass, Andover, Ar
thur, Beecher City, Clay tonville, Dunlap
ElTaston, Gross Park, Manhattan, Mound
Station, New Salem, North Evanston,
North Henderson, Prairie du Rocher,
Ridgeway, Sailor Springs, Stones Prairie,
Thawville, Vera, Washburn. The Post
master General has also ordered the estab-
lishment of Illinois postal-note offices as
follows: Fithian, Isabel, Littleton, Prem
tice, Broadwell, Kiibourn, Nebo, Dor
chester, Ripley, Rock Grove, Divernon.
Money order offices were made also of
towns in the following States:
NATURALIZATION, Bicknell, Coal City,
Clarksburg, Cromwell, Etna Green Greentown,
Idaville Linton, Maseng New Providence,
Sunman and Whitestown.
Iowa-Amish. Brooks, Clarkesv1lle, Clearfield,
Donnellson, Elmo, Grant City, Hedrick, Hol-
stein, Lehigh, Lovilla, Maurice, North Wash
ington, Sumner, Troy, Wayland.
Observation-Disclosures Cashton, Hortonville,
Hurley, Marion, Pittsville, West Superior.
Michigan = Algona Black River Breckin-
ridge, Climax, Freeport, Frontier, Girard Hol-
ton, Ironwood, Jones, Keelersville, Loomis, Mic,
Stephenson.
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SET A VILLAGE ON FIRE.

Town of Clarendon LOO Persons
Homeless = Two Lives Lost-The Best
Part of Canadian Hamlet Destroyed.
SET VILLAGE ON FIRE.
ERIE, Pa, July GA fire started at 8 80
p. IN. Monday in what is known as the old
Snow planning mill at Clarendon, seven
miles east of Warren, on the Philadelphia
& Erie railroad, and shortly afterward an.
other started in the Weaver Hotel, owned
by John Mahoney. There was brisk south
west wind blowing and the fire swept
over the frame buildings like whirl-
wind. The fire department, being small
was unable to cope with the two fires, and
appeals for aid wereosent to Warren. A
steamer and hook and ladder truck were
sent, arriving at Clarendon at 1890
Every effort was made to save the town,
but the depot of the Philadelphia q Erie
was the only building of consequence
saved.
The area burned over is about twenty
acres. The value of the buildings de-
stroyed is 1850, 900, roughly estimated,
while the insurance is small The adjust
ers are now on the grounds. 1t is esti-
mated that LOO people are homeless
Some are camped out at Clarendon. while
some have been taken to Warren, from
which place the provisions were sent.
Rough lumber is being sent to Clarendon
as fast as possible in order that shelter
may be provided for those burned out.
1t is now we'll established that the fire
was of incendiary origin. Public rumor at
Clarendon says that two weeks age, when
liquor licenses were refused to all appli-
cants in Warren County, Mahoney, the
proprietor of the Weaver House, threat
ened to fire the town if the decision of
the court was not reversed in two
weeks. Yesterday morning, after the fire
burned out, the citizens looked about for Ma
honey-for one of the fires started in his
room in the hotel-but he was not to be
found. A warrant charging him with arson
was sworn out and posses secured the sur
rounding country to apprehend him. He
was found hiding III the woods six miles
from Clarendon, and because lynching was
feared he was taken to Warren Jail.
A charred skeleton was found in one of
the rooms of the hotel, and it is supposed
to be that of hack driver named Sullivan,
who is missing. He was seen about the
hotel early in the evening drunk.
During the fire John Stewart was caught
by burning oil tank and cremated. 1t is
feared that others shared q similar fate.
Other oil tanks exploded and the valley
was soon full of burning oil. The people
became panic-striclzen and fed to the hills
for safety. The fire practically cut off
telegraphic communication with the town.
There were 106 buildings destroyed.
ST. RENT, CAM, PARTLY DESTROYED.
ST. RENT, Can, July GA portion of
this village was yesterday afternoon re-
duced to ashes. About thirty private dwell
lings and number of places of business
were destroyed. Very few of the places
were insured, and several families are left
homeless. The loss is estimated at 100000.
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A PICNIC ,Tas given to over two thou
sand Chicago newsboys and newsgirls. at
Jackson Park on the Both uIt
C. w. BUDD, of Des Moines, In a pigeon
shooting contest at Des Moinss, Ia, on the
Both ut. for the championship of America
killed ninety-seyeA birds, against ninety
five knocked over by j. H. Stice, of lii
nois.
w. L. ALLARD, editor OF the Moran
(Kan.) Herald. was shot down on the 30th
ult. by w. S. Samuel, druggist, for pub
fishing an item accusing Samuel of crook
edness
FIVE men were killed in an accident on
the 1st at Brazil, Ind
a WEALTHY planter and stockman named
Henry Hamilton, living near Little Rock,
Ark, was lynched on the 1st for murder
ing two brothers named Harris
AT Louisville, KY, Albert Turner fool.
ored) was hanged on the 1st for the mur.
der Of Jennie Bowman, and James Noel
roy tcolored) was executed at Henderson,
KY, for the murder Of William Mart. AS
long as he had breath the doomed man de
clared himself innocent
IT was reported on the 1st that cyclone
which passed over Foresman, Ind,
wrecked several buildings and did other
damage.
In quarrel about dog Michael McNa
mara, married and the father of seven chill
dren, was shot dead at St Paul, Mimi, on
the 1st by r. #. Donough
THE Giant Tobacco Company of Louis
vile failed on the 1st, with liabilities of
$780, 900 and assets nominaly the same
Two BROTHERS named Houghton and a
man named Paine were killed in quarrel
on the 1st at GAINESVILLE, Tex.
THE failure of Clark Brothers, cattle
dealers at Dexter, Ia, for 100000 was an
nounced on the 1st
NEAR Bruceville, Ind, John w. Emison's
barn was burned on the I'd by an incen.
diary, and thirteen horses and mules per-
ished in the flames.
IT was reported by miner who arrived
OH the 81 at 81 Paso, Tex, from Bavispe,
Sonora, that over three hundred earth
quazes had occurred there since May 3.
but no great damage had been dose.
THE Weber Brewing Company's malt
house at Cincinnati was burned on the
4th, and two men were killed and several
were injured by falling walls. Property
loss $50, 000
LoLLY ROBINSON, who shot and killed
Charles Williams, his wife's paramour, at
Caperton, W. Va, on the 4th, was taken
by mob from the officers and lynched.
All the parties were colored.
THE death of Ben D. House, we'll
known Indianapolis journalist, occurred in
that city on the 4th.
In Muskegon and Montcalm Counties,
Mich, forest fires were doing great dam
age on the Sd.
THIRTY FIVE fires occurred in Chicago on
the 4th, but the losses were trifling.
HUNTER MILLER treasurer of Perry
County, Ind, disappeared on the 4th, leav-
ing deficit of $57, 00o
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-07-08
HUI MOROUS.

Whenever we have q "blow-out"
at our house we invariably elbow i'm
about every thing we have.
-'Let's go fishing, Johnny" ''Naw,
I don't want to-" "WhyP" ooh, L
can't catch any thing "Well can.
catch lickin' every time l y
Newman independent.
ga guilty conscience needs no ac-
cuser," says the proverb, with great
truth. The guiltier a man s conscience,
the more willing he is to worry along
without an accuser. -MercbGnt TraU-
eLer.
1.-THE recent cyclones are said to
have moved on parbolic curve. -
That is evidently the difference between
a cyclone and tornado, which moves
on diabolic straight line Chicago
Journal.
"A Kentucky farmer has trained a
lot of monkeys to work in his hemp
fields. Well, one soweth, another reap
eth. Many man has reaped harvest
of hemp because of monkeyinS around
too much. Y. Herald.
Mrs. Harlem-"Aren't the Palis-
AIDES wonderfully fine, Cousin Tom?'
Cousin Tom (who was born and has
lived in st. Louis) -"Can't say. Never
seen IN play. But we're goin' ter yank
the pennant this year n don't you for
get it, -Ttd- Bits.
"A judge, joking a young lawyer,
said; I'll you and we're to be turned
into a hor or an ass which would
you prefer to Yep" ''The ass, 10 be
sule!" replied the lawyer" I've Heard
of an ass being made judge, but
horse never. "-Judge.
-''Ob, Rowena," exclaimed VoItls
germ Tapameasure, dropping on his
knees without a struggle, 'ycur
beauty fires my heart ''My daugh-
ter said old Hengi:t Wheatcorncr,
entering the room, ~ will divide
the contract with you: 1 will fire the
rest of him." Which he dld.-Bwrdette.
The near sighted man who imi-
tated the Unc e Toby act by taking
what he Ito Ight was fly tenderly to
the window and saying as he let it go,
There is room enough in this world
for thee anil me, will not initiate the
Uncle Toby act again. His fly was
wasp. SomerUilye Journal.
A reaLestate agent, who was try
ing to sell some land lying along the
margin of river. was asked if the river
did not sometimes overflow its banks.
"Well, he answered, 81 must say that
heriver is not one of these feeble, sickly
streams that are always confined to
their beds.-M Y. Ledger.
The son of the soil in Texas APP
pears to be having tough time this
season. The editor of the Flatonia
argus sings:
"The chinchbug eats the farmers grain,
The bee-moth spoils his honey,
The bedbug fills him full Of pain.
The humbug scoops his money"
First Gentleman (entering the
apartment of second Gentleman)-
About a year ago you challenged me
to fight duelP'' Second Gentleman
(sternIy)-" 81 did SIR" First G.
And / told you I had just been mar
ried and / did not care to risk my life
at any such hazard Second G. Qaugh-
ingly(-'.I remember sir" First G.
(bitterly) Well, my feelings have
undergone change; any time you
want to fight let me know. Bon jour-
- Paris Figaro.